Senior Robotics Engineer, Mapping & Localization

There's undeniable demand for cheap, fast and reliable deliveries (pick all three!) across all delivery companies, restaurant chains and individual restaurants.

We want Serve to help all of them. To accomplish this, Serve needs autonomous driving and routing capabilities build on top of robust, scalable maps, as well as high quality real-time localization to make use of these maps. We are a small but highly capable team, so the impact of your work will be considerable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement core pieces of our next generation mapping and localization engine

• Build a mapping system that scales to city-size environments

• Collaborate to improve Mapping annotation tooling and consumption of data by neural network based approaches for safe traversable area navigation

• Build estimators and RTK capable GPS data in robot to remove the uncertainty in it’s global localization

• Work closely with other autonomy team members to maximize the utility provided by mapping and localization

• Ship production quality code, participate in code reviews, teach / mentor more junior engineers

Qualifications

• Master’s in Robotics focused in localization and mapping with 5+ years of experience or PhD with solid research background that can be applied to practical robotic solutions in localization and mapping.

• A deep understanding of SLAM systems

• Strong C++ programming skills

• The ability to design and build a simple system that works, and having it gradually evolve into a elegant system that scales

• Strong verbal and writing communication skills

What’s makes you standout

• Experience building cloud applications

• Building infrastructure for labeling and maintaining HD maps

• Experience with very large geospatial datasets

• Experience with CUDA programming

• Experience with real sensors, such as lidar, camera, RGB-D, etc.

Hiring locations

Currently, we are only hiring US and Canada residents, even for remote jobs.

More about us

Serve Robotics is the team that created the Postmates delivery robot and brought it to life in LA, completing tens of thousands of deliveries in LA’s busiest neighborhoods. Now we're an independent company growing rapidly in order to connect people with what they need via robots designed to serve people.

We are proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

See Serve in action

Serve at TED 2020 main stage